Hello, I was wondering if people here could help me find more books that contains lives of the pre-schism Western saints. I'm looking mostly for primary sources.

So far, I've read:

Bede's Ecclesiastical HistoryThe Age of Bede (Penguin)St. Gregory of Tour's History of the FranksSt. Adamnan's Biography of St. Columba The Confession of St. Patrick

Any other good sources?

Thanks!

Penguin's "Early Christian Lives" has St. Martin of Tours and St. Jerome, I think, among others. There are also the books by Vladimir Moss which, I think, are probably English translations of Latin lives. Also there is Butler's Lives, which isn't primary, but some primary sources can be gleaned. The volumes by Sabine Baring-Gould also have many old Western saints' lives.

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Hello, I was wondering if people here could help me find more books that contains lives of the pre-schism Western saints. I'm looking mostly for primary sources.

So far, I've read:

Bede's Ecclesiastical HistoryThe Age of Bede (Penguin)St. Gregory of Tour's History of the FranksSt. Adamnan's Biography of St. Columba The Confession of St. Patrick

Gregory of Tours also wrote the Vita Patrum and many other hagiographies. Check out the Liverpool University Press Translated Texts for Historians. There are at least three volumes from Gregory: Life of the Fathers, Glory of the Confessors, and Glory of the Martyrs.

You might also like to read the Liber Pontificalis, translated in part by the same series.

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It is primarily dedicated to showing icons of pre-schism Western saints, but when you click on each saint listed, there is a bit of a description of their life, some more so than others. It probably doesn't help you but there are even some post-schism saints that lives in Western countries.

Hello, I was wondering if people here could help me find more books that contains lives of the pre-schism Western saints. I'm looking mostly for primary sources.

So far, I've read:

Bede's Ecclesiastical HistoryThe Age of Bede (Penguin)St. Gregory of Tour's History of the FranksSt. Adamnan's Biography of St. Columba The Confession of St. Patrick

Any other good sources?

Thanks!

Penguin's "Early Christian Lives" has St. Martin of Tours and St. Jerome, I think, among others. There are also the books by Vladimir Moss which, I think, are probably English translations of Latin lives. Also there is Butler's Lives, which isn't primary, but some primary sources can be gleaned. The volumes by Sabine Baring-Gould also have many old Western saints' lives.

I forgot to add Early Christian Lives. I do have that. For some reason I thought of the "Desert Fathers" and forgot the book also includes St. Martin of Tours and St. Benedict of Nursia. I don't think the book has a life of St. Jerome, but I believe he is author of one of the lives in (St. Paul of Thebes?)

I'll have to check out Vladimir Moss' works, and also Sabine Baring-Gould. I have an abridged Butler's Lives from my Catholic days.

Hello, I was wondering if people here could help me find more books that contains lives of the pre-schism Western saints. I'm looking mostly for primary sources.

So far, I've read:

Bede's Ecclesiastical HistoryThe Age of Bede (Penguin)St. Gregory of Tour's History of the FranksSt. Adamnan's Biography of St. Columba The Confession of St. Patrick

Gregory of Tours also wrote the Vita Patrum and many other hagiographies. Check out the Liverpool University Press Translated Texts for Historians. There are at least three volumes from Gregory: Life of the Fathers, Glory of the Confessors, and Glory of the Martyrs.

You might also like to read the Liber Pontificalis, translated in part by the same series.

Yes, I'm aware of the Vita Patrum, but I didn't realize it was available in print in English. Thanks for the source.